HB-437193 Dora Bruder, age fifteen, Jesish. In the school register, there is only this description of date and reason of departure against his name. December 14, 1941. The pupil has run away. This novel is the story of the same search which the author undertakes almost five decades later in the surviving documents of the German occupation of Paris. The links keep getting connected, and finally it is revealed that after leaving the school, she was caught by the Germans, and she was sent to Auschwitz where the Nazis made all the inhuman arrangements to exterminate an entire community.